Devin Morales

I’m 90% just kidding 90% of the time

[OKC THUNDER @okcthunder]

0 Forever 💙

02.07.27

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The guy who kept Shaq and Charles Barkley in line on TV for 37 years used to spend his mornings shaving and dressing his son, who could barely move and breathed through a ventilator. Then he'd go to work and laugh with those guys all night like nothing was going on.

Tonight Ernie Johnson said this season will be his last, and Barkley tried to thank him on air and couldn't get the words out.

I don't think most people watching that clip know what Ernie was carrying all those years.

He and his wife Cheryl adopted Michael from an orphanage outside Bucharest in 1991, when he was 3. He had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and doctors didn't think he'd make it to his 20s. He lived to 33. When Ernie was home, getting Michael ready in the morning could take an hour and a half, and Ernie did the showering and shaving and dressing himself.

In 2006 he told viewers he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and by the end of October he was back at the desk while he was still going through chemo.

When Michael died in 2021, Ernie wasn't on the show that week, and Shaq, Kenny and Chuck spent about six minutes trying to hold it together while they talked about a kid most of America never met.

Then last year he had heart bypass surgery, and this summer he turned 70.

Ernie's dad pitched in the big leagues and then called Braves games for decades, and he gave his son a rule Ernie's talked about forever: if somebody spikes you at second base, never rub.

If you've ever wondered why nobody's been able to copy Inside, that rule is a big part of it. Barkley could say the dumbest thing imaginable, Shaq could fall out of his chair, Kenny could go running to the big board, and Ernie would just pick it up and bring it back to basketball with that yellow legal pad. Those three got to be chaos because the guy in the middle never made his own stuff the show.

He still calls hosting a "get-to job," and he was calling it that the same year he buried his son.

So when Charles Barkley, who's roasted pretty much everybody alive on live TV, can't finish a sentence to the man, that's why.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Mike Evans had to check the back of Diggs’ jersey to see who was talking

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

When they have already called the penalty and they cut back to him on the ground I CRY EVERY TIME. 😂😂😂

[Zach Bollinger @zachbollinger18]

I’m glad the NFL is cracking down on this.

Kids watch these games. No need for stuff like this in the NFL presented by DraftKings.

Let the kids find out about beer the way they should… through the hundreds of NFL sponsored Bud Light commercials per game.

[FantasyPros @FantasyPros]

How it feels getting 40-Burgered by Josh Allen on a Thursday night

[bald ann dowd @ali_sivi]

tears in my eyes everything is going to be okay

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

The camera panning from the clock at 0:07 to Pierce Brosnan.

Absolute cinema.

[Devin Morales @devinmo7]

Dap was clean as hell

[Lethal Shooter @LethalShooter__]

Ms. Rachel understands it now!🏀

[Shehan Jeyarajah @ShehanJeyarajah]

“Ms Rachel is working out with Lethal Shooter” is the kind of stuff you say before you’re committed to a mental institution

[Maddie @maddiewhittle]

Oh my god this is so beautiful

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Steve Kerr says Roger Federer taught his Warriors team the secret to sustained success wasn’t outworking everyone, it was building a life around your craft you never want to escape from

“I’ll tell you a great story about Roger Federer. We were playing in China with the Warriors in 2017. Roger was in Shanghai for the Masters tournament, so we invited him to come speak to the team.”

“Draymond Green asked him, ‘How do you sustain success? How have you managed to win majors 20 years after you first won one?’ Everyone was expecting him to say, ‘I work harder than everybody,’ the will, all the clichés.”

“Roger Federer says, ‘I get up every morning and I make breakfast for my kids. Then I take them to school and drop them off. Then I go practice tennis for about two hours, and I’ve figured out a really good routine where I don’t destroy my body, but I can get all the work in I need.”

“‘Then I go have lunch with my wife. In the evening, we cook dinner together. The kids are all home from school. We ask them about school. There’s so much joy in the house. We put them to bed, and then I put my head on the pillow and go, “Man, that was just a great day.” And I’ve been doing that for 20 years.’”

“And it was like, yes. That’s it. That’s the formula. That’s what leads to sustained success. He loves tennis. He loves his family. He loves life. It’s not outworking everybody and banging your head against the wall, ‘I’m going to be better than everybody.’ It’s allowing your natural talent to shine through with a work ethic, with a great family life, with perspective, with peace, with mindfulness.”

“It’s perspective. It’s joy. It’s passion. It’s mindfulness. It’s an awareness that we are truly lucky. To get the most out of ourselves, it’s our daily rituals and experiences and love and joy.”

[egghamm @egghamm_]

did not think i'd see a truth nuke from david harbour but he's absolutely right. the obsession with the nuclear family, single family home, "just me and mine" mentality in america is part of the reason we're such evil people

[Covie @covie_93]

Jailing another country's president for breaking US law while refusing to hold the US president accountable for breaking US law is.......strange.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Yes, in fact, I do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonald’s should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That’s kind of the whole point of having a job and I can’t believe this is considered a radical position for me to take.

[Kazeem Famuyide 🇳🇬 🍎 @Kazeem]

Dropping this commercial before your first official season as top dog and AVERAGING A TRIPLE DOUBLE lol

[Devin Morales @devinmo7]

🔥🔥🔥

[CogginToboggan @CogginToboggan]

Odysseus: Where is my crew?

Circe:

[mayer @ymmmayer]

destroying books for ai is almost literally the plot for Farenheit 451. what the FUCK are we doing

[Kalshi Sports @KalshiSports]

NBA Most Games with 30+ PTS with under 10 FT Attempts (Last 3 Seasons)

72 — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
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56 — Luka Doncic
56 — Donovan Mitchell
54 — Nikola Jokic
53 — Steph Curry
53 — Kevin Durant